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Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag
Born 14 weeks early, Lexi Lacey owes her life to some MacGyver inspired doctors and a sandwich bag. Lexi was so small at birth that even the tiniest insulating jacket was too big, but she fit into a plastic sandwich bag nicely. ''The doctors told us they had never known a baby born as prematurely as Lexi survive. She was so tiny the only thing they had to keep her body temperature warm was a sandwich bag from the hospital canteen — it's incredible to think that saved her life," says her mom.
One or none?
Geekism is your _only_ God!
Hmmm, a second trimester baby living(so far). Now why are the pro-choice folks so adamant about NOT outlawing 3rd trimester abortions*?
*Special cases excluded of course.
Uh... none. What's yours?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Until you have a baby. None of these kind of comments will be funny anymore. Seriously.
If human brain activity exists then I don't see how the child can be called a fetus.
At what point in development does human brain activity typically begin?
Your reading comprehension is an abysmal joke.
I concede that the aggregate IMR in the US is surprisingly high, and then i discuss why that is (Based on the findings in the oft-cited research). I further explain that for premature babies, the US IMR is one of the best in the world.
I lay all of this out in my post.
I am very worried that you feel comfortable arguing with people based on pushing aggregate statistics from other sources when you have not displayed the ability to comprehend what you have read.
My opinions are my own, and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
you came off as an idiot who tries too hard to smart.
Lessons of the internet, part 1:
When insulting the intelligence of another, make sure your grammar doesn't fail at life.
The teachers will crack any minute, purple monkey dishwasher.
It was in the UK. The fully itemised bill looks like this:
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Total: £0.00
No, more like:
Sandwich bag: $0.15
Bag overhead fee: $3.80 (the rest of the box)
Emergency courier fee: $15,000 (guy running a block to the 7-11)
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Or just finish it off, and let the gov't take 100% of your income, and let them decide where you live, what you own, and where you work.
> this is an accurate portrayal of medicine in the UK
It was a national UK newspaper *story*. What do you think?
Oh for crying out loud, where do you people come from? Seriously. Do you really believe that there's this big group of people out there who just like killing babies for sport?
No. Special means cases where risk to the mother is significantly higher than would normally be expected. There are no doctors out there just rubbing their hands together and laughing maniacally about how many otherwise viable children they intend to kill off in needless third trimester abortions. If a woman is told at a late stage in her pregnancy that it looks like it's going to be either her or the baby, but not both that will survive, that's a horrible moment in her life. Some may choose to risk it all for the sake of the baby, but you have no right to act all superior and expect that she'll lay down her life for that child, who may not live either. You don't even have the courage to post under anything other than Anonymous Coward, so don't expect me to believe that you're so brave that you'd forfeit, or even risk, your life without a second thought.
Further, do you really think that pregnant women typically carry a baby for 6 or 7 months and suddenly decide, "naaah, I don't want one of these after all". There are not swarms of women in the last stages of pregnancy flocking to abortion clinics just for the fun of having an abortion. I won't say that it can't or doesn't *ever* happen, but a woman experiencing a healthy pregnancy, with a healthy baby is not at all likely to seek a late term abortion for no apparent reason.
Some bring out the best in others, some the worst. Some bring out far more.
Delivering into a plastic bag is standard neonatal practice in order to minimise insensible fluid loss. Ointment is not the best treatment by any means, and the plastic bag is a stopgap before getting the baby into an incubator with proper humidity control. You need to re-read the article: the baby was born at Worcestershire Royal Hospital because there wasn't time for an in-utero transfer to to Birmingham Heartlands (the tertiary centre); the baby was transferred ex-utero to Birmingham Heartlands and stayed there for 3 days, then downgraded to a less advanced unit.
OK, I know that you are being funny, but this happened in England. Here we have the NHS so it would have been free. Anyway: our unit of currency is £.